{"id":14957,"date":"2023-06-11T07:40:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T04:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=14957"},"modified":"2023-06-11T09:46:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T06:16:06","slug":"ebrahim-khodabandeh-pens-letter-to-the-special-rapporteur-on-contemporary-forms-of-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/14957","title":{"rendered":"Ebrahim Khodabandeh pens letter to the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Human Rights<br \/>\nOffice of the High Commissioner<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Tomoya Obokata<br \/>\nSpecial Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery<\/p>\n<p>Greetings and Regards<br \/>\nThis is Ebrahim Khodabandeh, the CEO of Nejat Society in Iran. Nejat Society belongs to the families of the members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) lead by Maryam Rajavi. The group is now living in a remote and closed camp in Albania isolated from the outside world.<br \/>\nMEK is a mind control destructive cult. They had their bases in Iraq under Saddam Hussein and were active during the Iran-Iraq war on the side of the enemy. Their main base was Ashraf Garrison. They were fully armed and financed and supported by Iraqi Ba&#8217;ath Regime.<br \/>\nAfter the fall of Saddam Hussein, many MEK members managed to flee from Ashraf and reported lots of atrocities against the members including physical and mental pressure, solitary confinement, torture, and even execution. Those who tried to escape ended up in Abu-Ghraib prison.<br \/>\nAccording to the cultic rules and regulations of the MEK, the followings are forbidden inside the cult and the wrongdoers are liable for punishment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Marriage and forming a family,<br \/>\n&#8211; Trying to leave the cult,<br \/>\n&#8211; Criticizing the leader and the cult,<br \/>\n&#8211; Contacting the outside world particularity family and friends,<br \/>\n&#8211; Having private thoughts and belongings<\/p>\n<p>The MEK moved to Albania in 2016 and they established the same remote and closed camp in Man\u00ebz in the province of Durr\u00ebs, also isolated from the outside world with the same Cultic rules and regulations.<br \/>\nThe MEK members are suffering from modern slavery. They have no way out and they have been subject to mind manipulation and brain washing for decades away from society and their families.<br \/>\nThe families of these members expect you as a UN official to intervene into the matter via the Albanian government to arrange for the families to have access to their loved ones inside the camp in order to be in touch with them. Some of these families have had no contact with their relatives for decades.<br \/>\nI am anxiously looking forward to hearing from you<br \/>\nRegards<br \/>\nEbrahim Khodabandeh, CEO of the Nejat Society<\/p>\n<p>P.S.<br \/>\nSome references for further information:<br \/>\nDestructive and Terrorist Cults: A New Kind of Slavery: Leader, Followers, and Mind Manipulation Paperback \u2013 September 15, 2014<br \/>\nBy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/stores\/Masoud-Banisadr\/author\/B00O7G6V7O?ref=ap_rdr&amp;store_ref=ap_rdr&amp;isDramIntegrated=true&amp;shoppingPortalEnabled=true\">Masoud Banisadr<\/a> (Author), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?i=stripbooks&amp;rh=p_27%3AProf+Janja+Lalich&amp;s=relevancerank&amp;text=Prof+Janja+Lalich&amp;ref=dp_byline_sr_book_2\">Prof Janja Lalich<\/a> (Author), &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Destructive-Terrorist-Cults-Followers-Manipulation\/dp\/1502384795\">3 more<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe title=\"Destructive and Terrorist Cults: A New Kind of Slavery: Leader, Followers, and Mind Manipulation\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"1170\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_3u8Rg7CoQ3dM6K&#038;asin=1502384795&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Mujahedin-e Khalq in Iraq<br \/>\nA Policy Conundrum<br \/>\nBy RAND, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rand.org\/pubs\/authors\/g\/goulka_jeremiah.html\">Jeremiah Goulka<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rand.org\/pubs\/authors\/h\/hansell_lydia.html\">Lydia Hansell<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rand.org\/pubs\/authors\/w\/wilke_elizabeth.html\">Elizabeth Wilke<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rand.org\/pubs\/authors\/l\/larson_judith.html\"> Judith Larson<\/a><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.rand.org\/pubs\/monographs\/MG871.html<\/p>\n<p>No Exit<br \/>\nHuman Rights Abuses inside the Mojahedin Khalq Camps<br \/>\nBy Human Rights Watch (HRW), May 2005<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.hrw.org\/legacy\/backgrounder\/mena\/iran0505\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner Prof. Tomoya Obokata Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery Greetings and Regards This is Ebrahim Khodabandeh, the CEO of Nejat&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[504],"tags":[24424,581],"module":[76],"ctype":[17],"blog":[244],"class_list":["post-14957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unhcr","tag-ebrahim-khodabande","tag-nejat-activities","module-letters","ctype-story","blog-ebrahim-khodabande"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14957"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=14957"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=14957"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=14957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}